Harish Khare

Harish Khare is an Indian journalist. He served as the Media Advisor to the Prime Minister's Office from June 2009 to January 2012. On 19 January 2012 he resigned from his post.[1] Khare has worked as Resident Editor and chief of bureau with The Hindu in New Delhi, India.[2] On 14 November 2012, he was awarded the Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship for his project "Governing India in the 21st Century: Reinventing Nehruvian Executive Leadership Mode."[3] He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Tribune Group of publications from 1 June 2015[4] until 15 March 2018.[5]

Harish Khare
Media Advisor to the Prime Minister of India
In office
2009–2012
Personal details
NationalityIndian
OccupationJournalist

In July 2011, he "strongly" refuted a claim by a columnist that he had been hosted by Ghulam Nabi Fai.[6] On 19 January 2012, he resigned as the media advisor to the Prime Minister and was replaced by Pankaj Pachauri.[7] There was no "official word" about why the change occurred.[8] On 15 March 2018, he resigned as editor of The Tribune, after an investigative story on a data breach was seen as an "embarrassment" to the Modi government.[9]

Khare is married to the social worker Renana Jhabvala.

References
  1. "Harish Khare resigns as media advisor to PM". IBN Live. 19 January 2012. Archived from the original on 22 January 2012.
  2. Khare, Harish (12 April 2006). "Lessons from the new intolerance". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 13 April 2006.
  3. "Harish Khare, T.N. Ninan bag Nehru Fellowship". The Hindu. 15 November 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  4. "Harish Khare is new Editor-in-Chief". The Tribune. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  5. Guruswamy, Mohan (18 March 2018). "Harish Khare Forced Out Again: Exit Casts Shadow Over The Tribune's Independence". The Citizen. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  6. "I don't know Fai, says Harish Khare". Hindustan Times. 22 July 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  7. "Harish Khare resigns as the media advisor to PM, Pankaj Pachauri takes over". India Today. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  8. "Harish Khare resigns as media advisor to Prime Minister". The Financial Express. 20 January 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  9. "Harish Khare, Tribune editor, quits". 16 March 2018.


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